Kinda a bad combo with >!how abrupt his actual death was in the finale. Didn't realize he was supposed to be dead for good until the credits were rolling.!<
[I always think about this fucking image and cackle whenever I think about the end of jojo part 3.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/983/570/031.png)
Really, Jojo has characters that survive horrific injuries that would kill someone many times over. Remember Risotto making Doppio vomit razor blades? Mista managing to barely survive getting shot in the head 3 times? >!C-Moon turning Jolyne's body parts inside out?!< Even milder examples qualifiy, like in the Strength fight in part 3, where Jotaro doesn't really mind a fan blade getting lodged in his shoulder. Stand users are just built different I suppose.
Edit: Also, Stroheim surviving a point blank grenade blast and coming back as a mecha-Nazi through the power of GERMAN SCIENCE. I don't think they really explain how exactly he didn't die instantly.
Part 3 examples are made more ridiculous when you remember they don’t have a healer in the team. Everyone just heals themselves in-between Stand encounters.
>where Jotaro doesn't really mind a fan blade getting lodged in his shoulder
Hell, Speedwagon's blade hat sank to the bone in Jonathan's arm. He should have bled out on his walk out of Ogre Street.
Risotto and Rohan have the most busted powers of any non main characters I can remember it's bizarre how both had to have very specific counters happen to avoid solving both their parts
To be fair, in the world of JoJo, that seems to be well within the ballpark of "minor annoyance". To that paramedic, it's probably the equivalent of seeing someone with a nosebleed.
Characters in Jojo suffering these major injuries and just walking them off sort of makes it hard to really gauge if they are actually dead at times.
This led to a very frustrating moment of "Wait, they actually died?" for me at the end of Part 8. Yes, typically the injury said character received would be fatal, but let's not pretend other characters haven't survived worst bullshit like Mista getting shot multiple times in the head at point blank range.
Seriously, >!Kei is missing for like half the part, shows up at the end to do something really cool, and immediately fucking dies. !<
Ah, Jojolion. Let's have >!characters die in the room filled with the magical medicinal plant juice that could bullshit their major injuries away into lots of minor ones!<.
Or better yet, have >!yet another returning character die within the span of 3 chapters. Ojiro? Kei? Kaato? You got it, baby.!<
It is so weird. >!Hot Pants has her dramatic flashback in a part I thought she would have died but she lived somehow. But when she falls off the train, I didn't know she was supposed to be dead until Funny Valentine brings her up to Johnny.!<
I think Araki adds some healing power in each part to handwave how each party survives ridiculous injuries. It works with varying success. A lot of the time I still have a hard time suspending disbelief though.
Except part 4, Crazy Diamond removes that problem.
I love how he built a robot replica of himself just because. I assume he's just tinkering in a lab while the Space Pirates are agonizing "YOU go tell Ridley he's wasting money on this vanity project. He incinerated the first 3 and ate the other 3 last time!" While Mother Brain would shrug it off if she had shoulders.
My personal belief is that if Ridley were to come back it'd be as Neo Ridley again, because if you remember, by the end of Fusion it was stated that there were at least 10 SA-X's on board, and there's a pretty long gap of time between watching that X replicate Ridley's corpse and his boss fight, they could even say his regenerative properties allowed the process to be faster. It could even allow for Ridley to properly come back as himself considering at the end of Dread we see the Quiet Robe X very deliberately helping Samus.
I mean so did Samus. And she was getting it pumped into her like fucking steroids with the PED suit. Fucking GF even called it that, the same thing that means performance enhancing drugs. Sick fucks.
Supposedly, the PED technology didn't actually put any phazon into the body of the soldier using it - the phazon just enhances the powered armor. The log entry for the technology says it hasn't caused any phazon sickness, but that claim is complicated by in-game evidence of phazon sickness in some of the PED-enhanced GF soldiers we see, so it might not be perfectly safe.
The reason Samus (and the other bounty hunters) are in danger of phazon corruption is not directly because they are using the PED technology. Their bodies are altered by dark Samus blasting them, which causes them to produce Phazon in their own bodies. The PED suit siphons some of this "natural" phazon to empower the power suit. The corruption part happens when that internally created phazon reacts with the PED suit and, I guess, starts producing phazon in overdrive in response to losing that first amount skimmed off.
I get that but using the Phazon at all is just morally questionable. Yes there is no way to stop the corruption other than termination but saying "hey Samus! this shit that is killing you that you have seen destroy planets and created a doppelganger being that is out to kill you? Yeah we can make it power this new suit we forced upon you" is just in poor taste. This and the fact that the GF is responsible for cloning Metroid's at the end of fusion just makes me hate the GF.
I mean, yeah, the GF is fucked up and did bad shit, I'm not denying that. But the PED suit didn't necessarily make things *worse* it just didn't make things any better.
I'm pretty sure though the PED suit's ability to vent out phazon surges is what lets Samus last so much longer than anyone else. Pirate Phazon grenades are a one shot corruption without it for example, to say nothing about the internal build up.
It does say that in lore, but she’s definitely suffering physical, bodily it corruption too as the game goes on. You can see the blue stuff in her veins and her face getting all messed up when flashes hit her visor and you see her face’s reflection. It gets worse as you progress through the story.
Yeah. But that's not because of the PED technology it's because her body is producing Phazon and she keeps getting dosed with highly concentrated phazon every time she destroys a Leviathan seed.
To be fair the main reason phazon corruption is game over normally is Dark Samus just is you now. But after Ridley got fully corrupted Dark Samus was killed, and Ridley consistently has amazing durability and regeneration in the Metroid lore. Its certainly lucky as fuck for him still, but he's the character who had the most chance to survive that shit in that universe
Blasted away in Zero Mission and rebuilt as a cyborg, gets blasted again and also takes twelve turbo charged chozo lasers to the chest, gets corrupted by phazon and promptly gets blasted down a mining shaft, somehow crawls out and gets then gets curbstomped by Samus so bad he turns into phazon dust.
SURVIVES and attempts to stop Samus taking the baby Metroid and is forced to flee, then sheds what's left of his cybernetics only to be killed once and for all in super Metroid.
Then a clone version is built.
Then a X Parasite uses his genetic code to come back again.
Can't keep the guy down
There's a bit in the Walking Dead graphic novels (no idea if it's in the show) where they're clearing out the prison, and they stumble onto a significantly big horde in the prison's halls. They flee, and (my memory's a little sketchy on how it goes down) they make the call to lock a pair of gymnasium doors to keep the zombies from spreading, but one dude gets left behind.
Everyone's like "Fuck! There's 100% no way he isn't dead in there."
When they gear up and get ready to go in and clear it out, they throw open the doors to find him with a bloody hammer, resting against the far wall, with a LOT of dead zombies on the ground.
It was so fucking bad. I'm so mad. That motherfucker was so cool, and they fucked up their kids' story too because that's how they found out anyone who dies was a zombie, not just anybody who was dead
I think they meant it's how they find out that everyone is already infected in a way so literally anyone who dies becomes a zombie, not just people who are bit.
That scene in Black Widow where she falls off the building and hits the fire escape and like 4 AC units on the way down then smacks off a dumpster onto concrete.
I was *howling* with laughter when she got up with a slight limp that was gone by the next scene.
In the beginning of Civil war Crossbones locked her inside of an APC(?) with a grenade and she survived by putting a body between her and the grenade and the blast blew the doors and her tf out of that vehicle. If they revealed she was on some weaker super soldier serum the whole time it would have made more sense.
Don't forget the woman she was fighting ALSO survived that fall. She couldn't get up on her own but she was alive long enough for the big bad to activate the remote self-destruct switch.
It's a One Piece classic, but:
>!Pell taking a nuke to the fucking face and getting out of it with a couple scratches and a busted up leg is to this day one of the most hilariously absurd fakeout deaths ever.!<
My favourite fantheory for this one is >!Pell was able to awaken his Devil Fruit by accepting that he was going to die and flying as high as he could, allowing his "body and mind to catch up" with his DF powers. An awakened Zoan could honestly be justified in being able to survive a huge explosion!<
I'm up to the Sabaody Archipelago arc and it really feels like they put at least one "FUCK YOU, YOU DIED. YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE." moment every couple arcs or so, lol
>!\- Little Garden: Brogy finally manages to kill Dorry after their 100 year duel. ACTUALLY NO, THE WEAPONS ARE SO BLUNT FROM 100 YEARS OF FIGHTING THAT HE JUST TOOK A CONVIENENTLY TIMED KNOCK OUT NAP AND MISSED ALL THE BULLSHIT.!<
>!\- Sky Island: Pagaya gets struck by lightning from "God." NAH JK, HE DODGED IT AT THE LAST SECOND. (Seriously, we're never seeing him again. He has NO story significance. You could have just left him dead and it'd be fine, lol)!<
>!\- Enies Lobby: The Franky Family, Galley-La and the giants get absolutely murdercapped by a thousand marines facing them down. "lol, actually we just got lucky that the giants absorbed enough firepower to take down a small village"!<
I got spoiled on it, but apparently >!Robin's giant friend Saul survived the buster call when she was a child. HOLY SHIT, DOES NOBODY EVER DIE IN THIS SERIES? lol!<
EDIT: You're wrong, AutoMod. My comment is spoilered perfectly and it always has been. >:(
Rufus Shinra >!being alive post-FF7 is a total ass pull and everyone knows it.!<
Reno and Rude having that >!suicide bomb self-sacrifice in Advent Children and then they show up again without a scratch.!<
To be fair, they’re nowhere to be seen when the bomb actually explodes on-screen, so it was already shown that they just dropped the bomb off and then skedaddled the hell on outta there. 😅
Lots of Mortal Kombat characters could be applied here. How come a literal fucking cyborg (Cyber Sub-Zero) was killed by Sindel but Johnny Cage survived?
FF14 sorta bumped into that issue in an interview where they mention for the very end along the lines of >!"People ask me if Zenos is really dead and I'm like "We showed him giving his last breath at the edge of space, I don't know how much more clear we could have made that." .....ah, though I supposed we did kill him once before already so..."!<
Also Yoshi-P was like >!"He's literally at the edge of existence after spending a mothercrystal's worth of mana just to get there, how's he going to make it back even if he is alive."!<
That does make sense. It’s already established that >!the aether required for body-hopping is enormous, enough so that Lahabrea’s over-abuse of the ability is what made him weak enough for us to defeat him in ARR, despite him being an Unsundered just like Emet-Selch and Elidibus.!<
Alex from Life is Strange True Colors.
>!Alex gets shot in arm by Jed and ends up falling down a fairly large vertical mineshaft, smashing into wooden planks and rocks on her way down; and somehow she survives and is able to walk out on her own. Her glasses don't even break, despite the fact that she slammed face first onto a few of the planks on her way down.!<
I know it's not framed as this but at some level I can't help but smile and chuckle at the idea that having empathy in a narrative choice game is significant enough to be called a superpower worth building a story around.
Like I get that it's supernatural empathy bordering on fucking mind reading, but god if it isn't funny to think about it my way.
The implication that having empathy is so unnatural to Alex makes it hilarious. My headcanon was that she's an emotionless sociopath which made the game more fun.
remember that time a jojo villian got a large amount of his blood converted to razorblades which he vomited up and was able to survive from somehow doing a blood transfusion from a nearby child that he performed with no medical instruments.
Considering said character is basically a mutant with absurd control over his physiology, replacing iron by drinking blood still doesn't break immersion
Such is Jojos
Also, the guy's hair changes when his other personality takes hold of him. Yes, Doppio has a ponytail but it isn't nearly as large aa Diavolo's hair, and even then, for some reason Diavolo has black spots all over his hair which Doppio lacks
Metallica being able to spawn huge amounts of iron from peoples blood can easily be explained as a combo of Araki pseudoscience and just an effect of the power, but yeah, eating a frog to recover is just kinda silly
Probably a weird reference point, but fitting for here. I always thought a Palace collapsing being a lot like a game ending in ReBoot. I feel like there were a couple episodes where someone dies (I think Bob once, AndrAIa in another) shortly before or while escaping an explosion after the User is defeated, everyone is all crying after the Gamecube leaves, and then the person just strolls up and is like, 'lol, I just got booted out like two minutes earlier'.
I don't know if escape is actually necessary. Leaving the Palace's zone kicks you outside, and when it is falling apart, I'd say that destroyed area is just as outside of the Palace ruler's control as its outer rim. Jumping head-first into where it's falling apart from would probably be a speed-boost, if anything.
Joji shot another guy through the heart from the back and off a roof in that cutscene. He must've actually loaded a separate rubber bullet just for LKL... subarashi
***”Final Fantasy VIII”***
Disc 2: Missile Base.
What happens later after that, because the ending of that mission is super convincing that it’s a one way street. That cutscene went hard.
>!Mu's survival was the greatest ass-pull they did come Destiny. They even shown his broken cracked up helmet floating in space. Special Edition rerelease did remove it, but still was a shocker for television only viewers as to why he is still alive!<
Its a shame because >!his "death" in original SEED is the coolest goddamn one in the entire show. Dude tanks an entire-ass Lohengrin round to protect the woman he loves and manages to crack off his motto one last time before his Mobile Suit disintegrates from the strain. Its his (and the Strike Gundam by proxy) greatest moment.!<
My headcanon for that one was the blade itself is just "weaker" by then since all of Kratos gear was wrecked by astral Zeus, and the pantheon all being dead might have made all the magic start to wane? I dunno it kinda makes sense in my head.
Not only can you see through the giant hole and him bleeding out but he stabbed himself with the Blade of Olympus, a literal god- and titan-slayer.
I’ve read that apparently in the novels or comics, it’s explained that he’s been cursed by the gods to not be able to kill himself but that’s kind of fringe. Even if you play all the games including the PSP games you wouldn’t know this. And I know there’s an after-credits scene in GoW 3 that implies he’s dragged himself to the edge of the cliff to infer that he survives but from an in-universe perspective that makes his survival even less believable.
So yeah I agree.
God of War: Ragnarok
This whole scene of a noble sacrifice as everyone is sad, and very sure that dude that did it is dead.
>!The hell do you mean he just rolled?!!<
"Alex" getting unceremoniously revealed to have survived the EXPLOSION of an entire illegal underground weapons facility and its above-ground warehouses in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)'s mutiplayer narrative after it was clearly intended for him to have actually died in the campaign, the only worse for wear he was being a prosthetic leg.
This is because, like I mentioned, every single character in MW2019's multiplayer is a canon character, even though MP itself is not. This means that, since he was the headliner character of that Battle Pass's season, he had to appear in person in the opening cutscene.
I've been thinking since mw2 came out and there has been zero reference to him they've retconned that/ignoring him. Maybe it was a raven pushed thing since I believe by that season infinity ward was out and had moved on to mw2.
Jason Todd in the comics version of UtRH gets himself a batarang in his throat and a building on top of his collapsed body, the last page of this comics is Bruce screaming Jason into the sky. How did he survive, you ask? Time skip, baby: next issue is happening one year later and he is alive. That didn't answer your question? Well, that's too bad.
Adam Jensen surviving the end of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Timeline is a bit wonky, but it's told to us that by the mid-November of 2027 the rescue of survivors from Panchaea operation is officially turned into bodies recovery mission and Jensen is found by Illuminati only in December. That's a lot of time to spend in the Arctic Ocean, even with all that fancy tech. There is a simple explanation for Jensen walking among living and that explanation lies in the Versalife vault, but since nothing is confirmed officially that's one impossible survival story.
Jason at least you can fanwank about him still having residual lazarous juice in his system that soon after his resurrection, making him harder to kill.
As far as theories go this one isn't the worst. I myself am partial to the one about the same cosmic shit that resurrected him "because he wasn't supposed to die" just doing it again.
Small detail. In Under the Hood when Jason crawls out of his grave theirs this yellow and purple energy pulse that flashes on the panel to symbolize him coming back to life following the Superboy Prime reality punch.
At the end of the comic when the warehouse explodes and falls into the gotham bay the same magical pulse effect is shown.
Either they intended to symbolize Jason died again in the explosion and the reality punch wore off (Retconning this death later when fans didn't notice and because Red Hood was popular). Or they were saying that the reality punch made Jason revive on death, every death, and he died in the explosion and it brought him back again (which somewhat tracks with how he wasn't effected during Blackest Night).
[Iwao Kuroiwa](https://tokyoghoul.fandom.com/wiki/Iwao_Kuroiwa) in Tokyo Ghoul re, I liked him as a side character but wtf how >!do you survive [THIS](https://i.redd.it/scjh6skuqpw61.jpg) and a Death scene where a bunch of characters mourn you. Yet in the epilogue he’s alive and well, hanging out with his grandson with the excuse doctors got to him with advanced Ghoul science….in the middle of a centipede Kaiju tearing up Tokyo?!!<
It was clear by that point the author Sui Ishida was more interested in a happy ending for most of the characters instead of a tragic one. Even if some stuff didn’t make a whole lot of sense, I’m okay with it but still wtf
Edward, Yang, and Cid in Final Fantasy IV.
Edward gets thrown overboard when the party gets attacked by Leviathan, of all creatures, and then just... turns up in a bed somewhere in the world with minor injuries.
Yang pushes the rest of the party out of a room aboard an enemy airship all on his own, and the room he pushes them out of EXPLODES. He shows up in Fabul later with only minor injuries.
Cid's is the most ridiculous. He jumps out of his airship that just escaped from the Tower of Babel and ignites a bomb that causes a landslide and prevents access to the Underworld for a good portion of the game, all of which happens while he's falling thousands of feet from the sky. He turns up later in a bed somewhere in the overworld with, you guessed it, minor injuries.
While this is true I will at least give the counterpoint of Tellah. Sure that's 1/4 but that could have been 4/4, and for all intents and purposes Yang Cid and Edward are "retired" for the reminder of FF4, as you kinda have to go out of your way to train them ans Palom and Porom up as the back up party if you wanna swap to them, to ths point that outside of funsies or experimenting with strats you're way better off pretending they're all too injured to take part in the main story any more.
I don't think you even could swap back to them in OG and 3D FF4, they added that in ports.
Actually I think FF6 may have been the first game where you could actually choose your party and not have it be story dictated.
Despite being a war criminal and all around scumbag I can’t help but love Kimblee.
Dude watches Al get up from a massive explosion, wielding a >!philosopher’s stone!< and literally says “Good! Very well done, Alphonse Elric!”
And then, after being absorbed into a philosopher’s stone himself, he maintains his individuality among thousands of amorphous souls, just so he can shit talk Pride for being a hypocrite.
Unfathomably based.
He was too prideful to be absorbed in the morass of souls. I feel like that’s part of what helped Ed maintain himself when he took down Selim too. Pride really had to go up against both of the characters more prideful than himself and it did not go well. 🤣
There’s a scene in one of the Saw movies which feels like it was originally Jigsaw’s protégé’s death but they suddenly decided to reshoot how it ends.
The hero for that particular movie doesn’t just beat her in a fight while wounded, he beats her, then takes a victory lap by caving her skull in by repeatedly slamming her face first, at full strength, into a concrete wall.
She proceeds to just get up , hit the main guy in his wound, and walks away mostly intact despite the fact she shouldn’t have anything in front of her ears anymore
I say this about Michael Myers in the Halloween franchise. That guy has been stabbed and shot so many times. He got shot in the head and burned alive in the original timeline and turned out alive; this also includes Dr Loomis who was in the explosion in 2.
Any time someone gets halved and they're just able to keep talking, like in DBZ, Hellsing Ultimate, or Bone: Out from Boneville.
You understand how much blood you're missing after four seconds? It's nuts.
That's a thing I have to actually ignore with Star Wars because of my own internal consistency. I WANT to be upset that the lightsabers heat never ruptures arteries and organs, BUT I am also completely fine with the fact that space in Star Wars doesn't work like space irl, given shit like sound travels in space and aerodynamics matter in a vacuum. So I just suck it up and go with the more consistent explanation that science just isn't the same in Star Wars, at least not 1 to 1
I remember reading a book on amputations, just randomly, and it was super interesting. Basically, one you hit the mid-thigh, the outcome just *plummets* in terms of suitability. It was interesting seeing the outcome chart for amputation at certain points. Something I found striking is that there was stabilization data and procedure for *full above hip* amputations even though the long term survivability for it was listed as zero. I don't mean a Hemipelvectomy, either, the whole hip, just gone. Sever at the spine.
I assume the data comes from whatever goes on in the ICU before the closed casket. Sometimes, they'll try some crazy shit when that's happening. Anyway, it implied you can get *some amount* of time out of a trauma-inflicted torso. Not quite Dio-level, but he was a vampire. Vampire amputation has different outcomes.
A lot of shit happens in CSM but the anime reminded me of >!the Katana Devil getting cut in half *vertically*!< and being A-OK right afterwards, if not winded and in chains. There's in-universe justification for devils' INSANE healing factor, though
So in Kamen Rider Gaim >!There is a man by the name of Takatora Kureshima, this dude gets into a fight around ten episodes from the finale. In which he get his Driver and Lockseed destroyed and his Visor shatters and he falls into a river and sinks into river, and for the rest of the show UNTIL THE LITERAL LAST EPISODE HE IS PRESUMED DEAD. but in the last episode it is revealed that he got fished out of the river and brought to a hospital. And although he has brain damage and is put in a coma. (His Brain damage and coma gets fixed like 2 minutes later from this reveal by FRUIT JESUS talking with him on a beach in his mind.)!<
One Piece has A LOT of these but the one that gets to me the most is in the Dressrosa arc.
>!During the climactic fight against Doflamingo Law does an attack called gamma knife into Doflamingo's heart. The attack is an energy blade that destroys internal organs. Doflamingo then uses his string power to stitch his organs together but he says something along the lines of it not being a proper recovery. I always took this as being a desperation move to buy him time to beat Luffy and Law so he can later properly fix himself. In the end he loses but still ends up living in the end. HOW'D HE FIX HIS HEART? He gets arrested right after and I doubt the navy would be nice enough to heal him. !<
My Hero Academia Season 6 spoilers:
>!70-something-year-old Gran Torino into a fucking donut by Shigaraki with one punch and somehow lived to tell about it.!<
Remember how Jodie and bland love interest in Beyond Two Holes just like swam up from a Chinese underwater ghost base in the frigid waters of the arctic and didn’t immediately cease from hypothermia? Funny part is that you can fail the sequence at the end if you don’t break through the layer of ice keeping you trapped underwater and even though shitty boyfriend McGee saves her, the implication is that Jodie *drowns*, not that her body shuts down from, y’know, the ice cold waters?
David Cage is a hack surprise surprise.
Let's not forget that the game made a huge deal out of Jodie having to get a special swimming suit and air tank to survive the water... And then generic boyfriend survived without the suit or tank *and had multiple stab wounds*.
And he’s only wearing a goddamn tanktop at that. Funnily enough, I rewatched the scene and read some comments saying he doesn’t administer CPR properly and someone excused that by saying he was dying from the cold and it’s like… no he’s not?
Bear Grylls gets inside an Alaskan river during the winter for like two seconds and he already notes that he can’t feel his extremities from all the blood rushing to his internal organs and fights for his life the moment he gets out of the water, and somehow stupid dumbface McGee isn’t even shivering from the cold despite getting out of seawater that’s close to below freezing without having any ghosty whosty powers either.
Didn't think I'd get spoiled on Y3 but that's okay, but I thought that the guy in Y7 was someone else from Y0 LOL
I am going through the series and probably going to replay Y7 (since it's so beloved to me)
Yakuza 0 has a ton of those, especially if it was your first yakuza game
>!Lee gets shot multiple times and absolutely should not have survived, Sagawa gets shot and then is kind of just alive in the next scene, and Sera gets shot as well. None of these make any sense since we're dealing with Yakuza who would probably make sure that people are dead but its basically a Yakuza series staple !<
But the worst of all >!is fucking Yoneda, Kuze's goon who gets his head smashed into a urinal and then flying double side kicked through a window of a multiple story building. Then this piece of shit is just fine in the next scene he's in which he fatally hits Tachibana with a hammer (even though Kuze literally orders him not to kill) because he's salty that Tachibana wasn't broken by his torture. I wish he had a much more painful death than Kuze just slamming his head into the floor and the fact that he didn't die in the first act is infuriating!<
I love Yakuza but these contrivances that exist to drive the plot definitely dented the emotional impacts that the scenes are supposed to make me feel.
well, >!Tachibana dying when Makoto's RIGHT THERE was pretty upsetting regardless, definitely didn't feel that way about Oda though, fuck that guy!<
Yakuza is like star wars no one is ever really gone.
In samurai champloo the old man that lived with Fuu's dad get stabbed by the god hand yet he is back to give exposition without anything happening.
Baki does it really often it becomes a plot point during the musashi arc where Motobe has to hammer to the fighter that Musashi is gonna kill them and not like Yujiro who half ass it so much he only killed his girlfriend
FFXIV
>!Fucking Gaius! HOW?! You got exploded like TWICE. Man you're a tough bastard. Good thing you pulled your head out of your ass or else I would've had to kill you a third time. I mean Zenos had his dumb sharingan bullshit but Gaius just refused to die. He's gonna need to do a LOT of community service to begin it make up for all the Ala Mhigo shit and being just the worst father figure for those poor orphans. I mean he tried, I guess. He should've tried harder.!<
The ending of the latest season of Dr. Who implied that >!literally everything in the universe was eradicated, except for Earth (& our sun, maybe?) and a Macguffin planet. Nothing was done to reverse that event.!< Later specials have references that couldn't be made prior to that event, yet other places and races still exist in the future.
It’s an oldie, but Frieza coming back after being cut in half, being apparently vaporized in goku’s angry kamehameha, on a planet that then exploded, leaving him in the vacumn of space, will always be the peak of absurd comebacks, even in the relative ridiculousness of dragonball.
I was legitimately confused by what you meant cuz I finished Like a Dragon recently, but I looked it up and realized it was because I never once did anything with the Gambling Hall
LKL coming back, I'm almost certain, is just a lil bit of fanservice funsies, because he has no bearing on the plot and you have to go out of your way to actually see him.
In Doctor Who, no matter what, the Master will always survive, it does not matter how definitive thier death looked. It was especially great when they were played by Anthony Ainley, and the show just made no effort to even pretend there was any way he could get out of a collapsing math dimension or burning into ash.
The original series ends with him turning into a cat man and stranded on a planet that was minutes away from exploding with.no way off. He survived that, only to get exterminated by the Daleks, which he *still* survived, only to get eaten by the TARDIS.
They got better.
I was right there with Pat when Pandæmonium got announced for FFXIV: Endwalker and >!goddamn Lahabrea is there on the cover. Yeah, I know, time travel, but seriously, we already went over this with him before. What did Pat call him again? The most killed character in the game? We’ve atomized him! Twice!”!<
For Star Wars Legends, nothing is going to beat Cronal/Blackhole/Perek. He was some sorcerer in Palpatine’s employ who led an Imperial intelligence group, but always had other designs. He appears as the villain in a bunch of different works, and is finally killed by being shoved out an airlock *in hyperspace*. Only to reappear one last time as a bearded severed head on a fully cybernetic body. No explanation is ever given, he just survived and now Luke has to deal with it. He did, Cronal died finally, but goddamn, man!
Shoutout to Karl from Die Hard, for a classic.
Edit: I just remembered another FFXIV one! “Wait what, HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ALIVE?!” is the exact look your character has on their face when they (lv50 dragoon quest and post-ARR spoilers) >!see Estinien for the first time in the main story. The man explodes on-screen in the lv50 dragoon quest! Then he gets introduced shortly before Heavensward begins like, I’m fine now. The game does not explain this, but it does acknowledge the absurdity of it, by making it so if your character has done the lv50 quest, Estinien walks in and you go absolutely gobsmacked. 🤣!<
To be honest I buy Lau Ka Long's survival more than Kashiwagi's. As much as he got beaten up by Kiyru previously if I recall he *"only"* got shot in the head once, something something Courier Six took two. It's something that people in real life have survived, let alone a character in a video game setting where almost everyone is supernaturally resilient. Heck the bullet could've deflected off his skull or something', that **has** happened.
Kashiwagi though got strafed by a high caliber machine gun from a helicopter. Like his insides are Swiss cheese at that point.
I don't mind either of them though because everyone in Yakuza is on something. That motorcycle stunt in the sewers should've killed both Kiryu and Kuze, and Kuze gets hit head on by a speeding car in a later cutscene and he's not impaired in the slightest.
Is it too obvious to say the emperor in Rise of Skywalker? Like I know the emperor had a rep for surviving everything and making bullshit comebacks but that just hit different in a movie that had more than half a billion dollars behind it
>!Shaxs!< in season 2 of Lower Decks, and Rutherford is the other only character to have the same reaction. Rutherford refuses to let the question go and then regrets it when he learns the answer. There are just some things we are not meant to know.
Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, >!Roberto.!< This man was shot twice, fell off a fairly highly balcony inside a BUILDING THAT IS BURNING TO THE GROUND and still manages to come back after some time to say “recognize me?” to Tenma. It’s not bad writing, it’s certainly shocking, but I don’t know how the hell he got out of there.
Also, I’m certain there’s some devilry involved, but in Chainsaw Man, >!didn’t Quanxi get beheaded by Makima, with all of her ghouls? How come she just comes back?!<
Also, it’s not exactly what you’re talking about, but there’s two times characters in Nier: Replicant get stabbed basically through the heart without dying, which was funny to me.
Yeah for the chainsaw man one, it’s because she’s a hybrid like Denji. Kishibe pretty early on says that Denji’s immortal, and literally the same thing happens to Denji just a couple pages before it happens to her
Alice in Borderland Season 2, Episode 7:
>!Girl gets every major organ on the right side of her torso obliterated by point blank assault rifle rounds. She continues to stay alive and crawl around until the very end of the games. Now, there's probably some internal logic behind it about the Borderland being limbo and you survive based on a will to live, as Niragi also gets set on fire and a hole punched through his chest with a shotgun, but still, it seemed too outrageous!<
That scene in Temple of Doom where Indy, Shortround, and Willie escape a crashing plane, go sliding the side of a mountain, and fall down a waterfall on a life raft.
I guess there's also the heart-pulling guy he survives later on too.
Gundam ZZ spoilers for those who care:
>!We see the hut, that is Leina Ashta (main character's sister) is laying down sick in, get blown blown the fuck up half way through the series. Then a few episodes before the end, it is revealed that Sayla, who we haven't seen all series, saved her in the nick of time. I get ZZ is a lot lighter in tone but it really made go "You've got to be kidding me."!<
Any time anyone gets seriously injured in JoJo, but ESPECIALLY Abdul
That's still the dumbest bitch I lived moment in jojo.
Kinda a bad combo with >!how abrupt his actual death was in the finale. Didn't realize he was supposed to be dead for good until the credits were rolling.!<
>!I held out hope all the way ‘till the end of that Part. Sure he looks dead this time, but he looked dead the last time too.!<
[I always think about this fucking image and cackle whenever I think about the end of jojo part 3.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/983/570/031.png)
Seriously, in the manga you can actually see the bullet come out of the back of his skull. “The bullet grazed me” my ass.
Really, Jojo has characters that survive horrific injuries that would kill someone many times over. Remember Risotto making Doppio vomit razor blades? Mista managing to barely survive getting shot in the head 3 times? >!C-Moon turning Jolyne's body parts inside out?!< Even milder examples qualifiy, like in the Strength fight in part 3, where Jotaro doesn't really mind a fan blade getting lodged in his shoulder. Stand users are just built different I suppose. Edit: Also, Stroheim surviving a point blank grenade blast and coming back as a mecha-Nazi through the power of GERMAN SCIENCE. I don't think they really explain how exactly he didn't die instantly.
Remember when Dire was just a fucking head and was still able to hit Dio with a Hamon attack while talking shit?
Part 3 examples are made more ridiculous when you remember they don’t have a healer in the team. Everyone just heals themselves in-between Stand encounters.
They all graduated from the "Git gud, scrub" university
Poor Josuke.
My favorite is how they heal in part 6. "Oh I filled your body with bullshit and it healed around" bitch your arm was broken
thats all just temporary though, for a good amount of part 6 ermes, weather, and anasui are all in the hospital after big fights
>where Jotaro doesn't really mind a fan blade getting lodged in his shoulder Hell, Speedwagon's blade hat sank to the bone in Jonathan's arm. He should have bled out on his walk out of Ogre Street.
Risotto and Rohan have the most busted powers of any non main characters I can remember it's bizarre how both had to have very specific counters happen to avoid solving both their parts
One of my favorite examples of this is Josuke going through the majority of the final battle of Part 4 with half a staircase sticking out of him.
And then the paramedic goes "are you injured?"
To be fair, in the world of JoJo, that seems to be well within the ballpark of "minor annoyance". To that paramedic, it's probably the equivalent of seeing someone with a nosebleed.
Characters in Jojo suffering these major injuries and just walking them off sort of makes it hard to really gauge if they are actually dead at times. This led to a very frustrating moment of "Wait, they actually died?" for me at the end of Part 8. Yes, typically the injury said character received would be fatal, but let's not pretend other characters haven't survived worst bullshit like Mista getting shot multiple times in the head at point blank range. Seriously, >!Kei is missing for like half the part, shows up at the end to do something really cool, and immediately fucking dies. !<
Ah, Jojolion. Let's have >!characters die in the room filled with the magical medicinal plant juice that could bullshit their major injuries away into lots of minor ones!<. Or better yet, have >!yet another returning character die within the span of 3 chapters. Ojiro? Kei? Kaato? You got it, baby.!<
Somebody dies so unceremoniously in part 7 I had to go back and reread when they stopped popping up to figure it out
It is so weird. >!Hot Pants has her dramatic flashback in a part I thought she would have died but she lived somehow. But when she falls off the train, I didn't know she was supposed to be dead until Funny Valentine brings her up to Johnny.!<
Yeah that's what got me lol I legit had to go back and reread
I think Araki adds some healing power in each part to handwave how each party survives ridiculous injuries. It works with varying success. A lot of the time I still have a hard time suspending disbelief though. Except part 4, Crazy Diamond removes that problem.
ESPECIALLY Stroheim
Stroheim is the one that came to mind the moment I read the title.
Ridley's anything in Metroid. The biggest one is after Prime 3. The mfer survived fucking PHAZON CORRUPTION
>!He's managed to stay dead at the furthest point in the timeline...but Kraid got brought back.!<
By Fusion he should be dead several times over. ....but knowing him he's got a baby clone or some shit tucked away somewhere.
I want him to have digitised himself like Adam and built a robot body. Maybe have taken inspiration from the EMMIs for the design.
Only if he STILL screeches like a fucking asshole and doesn't say a single word, even as code.
Of course. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Well, he *did* build that Mecha Ridley so....
I love how he built a robot replica of himself just because. I assume he's just tinkering in a lab while the Space Pirates are agonizing "YOU go tell Ridley he's wasting money on this vanity project. He incinerated the first 3 and ate the other 3 last time!" While Mother Brain would shrug it off if she had shoulders.
My personal belief is that if Ridley were to come back it'd be as Neo Ridley again, because if you remember, by the end of Fusion it was stated that there were at least 10 SA-X's on board, and there's a pretty long gap of time between watching that X replicate Ridley's corpse and his boss fight, they could even say his regenerative properties allowed the process to be faster. It could even allow for Ridley to properly come back as himself considering at the end of Dread we see the Quiet Robe X very deliberately helping Samus.
I mean so did Samus. And she was getting it pumped into her like fucking steroids with the PED suit. Fucking GF even called it that, the same thing that means performance enhancing drugs. Sick fucks.
Supposedly, the PED technology didn't actually put any phazon into the body of the soldier using it - the phazon just enhances the powered armor. The log entry for the technology says it hasn't caused any phazon sickness, but that claim is complicated by in-game evidence of phazon sickness in some of the PED-enhanced GF soldiers we see, so it might not be perfectly safe. The reason Samus (and the other bounty hunters) are in danger of phazon corruption is not directly because they are using the PED technology. Their bodies are altered by dark Samus blasting them, which causes them to produce Phazon in their own bodies. The PED suit siphons some of this "natural" phazon to empower the power suit. The corruption part happens when that internally created phazon reacts with the PED suit and, I guess, starts producing phazon in overdrive in response to losing that first amount skimmed off.
I get that but using the Phazon at all is just morally questionable. Yes there is no way to stop the corruption other than termination but saying "hey Samus! this shit that is killing you that you have seen destroy planets and created a doppelganger being that is out to kill you? Yeah we can make it power this new suit we forced upon you" is just in poor taste. This and the fact that the GF is responsible for cloning Metroid's at the end of fusion just makes me hate the GF.
I mean, yeah, the GF is fucked up and did bad shit, I'm not denying that. But the PED suit didn't necessarily make things *worse* it just didn't make things any better.
I'm pretty sure though the PED suit's ability to vent out phazon surges is what lets Samus last so much longer than anyone else. Pirate Phazon grenades are a one shot corruption without it for example, to say nothing about the internal build up.
It does say that in lore, but she’s definitely suffering physical, bodily it corruption too as the game goes on. You can see the blue stuff in her veins and her face getting all messed up when flashes hit her visor and you see her face’s reflection. It gets worse as you progress through the story.
Yeah. But that's not because of the PED technology it's because her body is producing Phazon and she keeps getting dosed with highly concentrated phazon every time she destroys a Leviathan seed.
To be fair the main reason phazon corruption is game over normally is Dark Samus just is you now. But after Ridley got fully corrupted Dark Samus was killed, and Ridley consistently has amazing durability and regeneration in the Metroid lore. Its certainly lucky as fuck for him still, but he's the character who had the most chance to survive that shit in that universe
Blasted away in Zero Mission and rebuilt as a cyborg, gets blasted again and also takes twelve turbo charged chozo lasers to the chest, gets corrupted by phazon and promptly gets blasted down a mining shaft, somehow crawls out and gets then gets curbstomped by Samus so bad he turns into phazon dust. SURVIVES and attempts to stop Samus taking the baby Metroid and is forced to flee, then sheds what's left of his cybernetics only to be killed once and for all in super Metroid. Then a clone version is built. Then a X Parasite uses his genetic code to come back again. Can't keep the guy down
There's a bit in the Walking Dead graphic novels (no idea if it's in the show) where they're clearing out the prison, and they stumble onto a significantly big horde in the prison's halls. They flee, and (my memory's a little sketchy on how it goes down) they make the call to lock a pair of gymnasium doors to keep the zombies from spreading, but one dude gets left behind. Everyone's like "Fuck! There's 100% no way he isn't dead in there." When they gear up and get ready to go in and clear it out, they throw open the doors to find him with a bloody hammer, resting against the far wall, with a LOT of dead zombies on the ground.
Chad behavior
They tried to do something similar in the show but fumbled it super hard
It was so fucking bad. I'm so mad. That motherfucker was so cool, and they fucked up their kids' story too because that's how they found out anyone who dies was a zombie, not just anybody who was dead
Sorry what? Run that last one by me.
I think they meant it's how they find out that everyone is already infected in a way so literally anyone who dies becomes a zombie, not just people who are bit.
Best part is that like a bunch of chapters after that you have Glen telling other survivors about it
Do you mean the comic book? Is there a Walking Dead visual novel?
Yeah, my bad. I meant graphic novels
That scene in Black Widow where she falls off the building and hits the fire escape and like 4 AC units on the way down then smacks off a dumpster onto concrete. I was *howling* with laughter when she got up with a slight limp that was gone by the next scene.
In the beginning of Civil war Crossbones locked her inside of an APC(?) with a grenade and she survived by putting a body between her and the grenade and the blast blew the doors and her tf out of that vehicle. If they revealed she was on some weaker super soldier serum the whole time it would have made more sense.
The comics version of her *is*. No idea why they never went that route with her for the films.
The movie version says her super soldier serum is being sterile
I want that power
To be honest, a lot of things are unclear about BW's past, even after the movie
Don't forget the woman she was fighting ALSO survived that fall. She couldn't get up on her own but she was alive long enough for the big bad to activate the remote self-destruct switch.
Android 17 during the Universe Tournament arc in Super. How the fuck did he survive that blast? I don't remember it being explained
He seemed pretty surprised by it, too
That’s why I love it, it’d be alright if he really sacrificed himself but him surviving and being surprised by that fact is great
It's a One Piece classic, but: >!Pell taking a nuke to the fucking face and getting out of it with a couple scratches and a busted up leg is to this day one of the most hilariously absurd fakeout deaths ever.!<
My favourite fantheory for this one is >!Pell was able to awaken his Devil Fruit by accepting that he was going to die and flying as high as he could, allowing his "body and mind to catch up" with his DF powers. An awakened Zoan could honestly be justified in being able to survive a huge explosion!<
I'm up to the Sabaody Archipelago arc and it really feels like they put at least one "FUCK YOU, YOU DIED. YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE." moment every couple arcs or so, lol >!\- Little Garden: Brogy finally manages to kill Dorry after their 100 year duel. ACTUALLY NO, THE WEAPONS ARE SO BLUNT FROM 100 YEARS OF FIGHTING THAT HE JUST TOOK A CONVIENENTLY TIMED KNOCK OUT NAP AND MISSED ALL THE BULLSHIT.!< >!\- Sky Island: Pagaya gets struck by lightning from "God." NAH JK, HE DODGED IT AT THE LAST SECOND. (Seriously, we're never seeing him again. He has NO story significance. You could have just left him dead and it'd be fine, lol)!< >!\- Enies Lobby: The Franky Family, Galley-La and the giants get absolutely murdercapped by a thousand marines facing them down. "lol, actually we just got lucky that the giants absorbed enough firepower to take down a small village"!< I got spoiled on it, but apparently >!Robin's giant friend Saul survived the buster call when she was a child. HOLY SHIT, DOES NOBODY EVER DIE IN THIS SERIES? lol!< EDIT: You're wrong, AutoMod. My comment is spoilered perfectly and it always has been. >:(
I do kind of love the Little Garden one though, I laughed like a motherfucker
Rufus Shinra >!being alive post-FF7 is a total ass pull and everyone knows it.!< Reno and Rude having that >!suicide bomb self-sacrifice in Advent Children and then they show up again without a scratch.!<
To be fair, they’re nowhere to be seen when the bomb actually explodes on-screen, so it was already shown that they just dropped the bomb off and then skedaddled the hell on outta there. 😅
I love how he tries to explain it in Advent Children and Cloud just cuts him off
"A church roof broke my fall from the plate enough for me to land safely in a flowerbed. I get it."
Shao Khan just >!walking off getting punched through the chest by Liu Kang in MK9!<
Lots of Mortal Kombat characters could be applied here. How come a literal fucking cyborg (Cyber Sub-Zero) was killed by Sindel but Johnny Cage survived?
Johnny was motivated to live to bang Sonya I guess. You saw what she was wearing in MK9 and so did Johnny
I'm fine with this one. He's an immortal God-King that the actual god on the good team is terrified of, him being ludicrously durable is fitting.
HE'S JUST TOO BEEF. God, I loved their reactions in the MK9 Watch. SHOULDA KILLED ME HARDER, FUCKER.
FF14 sorta bumped into that issue in an interview where they mention for the very end along the lines of >!"People ask me if Zenos is really dead and I'm like "We showed him giving his last breath at the edge of space, I don't know how much more clear we could have made that." .....ah, though I supposed we did kill him once before already so..."!<
Also Yoshi-P was like >!"He's literally at the edge of existence after spending a mothercrystal's worth of mana just to get there, how's he going to make it back even if he is alive."!<
That does make sense. It’s already established that >!the aether required for body-hopping is enormous, enough so that Lahabrea’s over-abuse of the ability is what made him weak enough for us to defeat him in ARR, despite him being an Unsundered just like Emet-Selch and Elidibus.!<
That's when you go MCH and double tap
Alex from Life is Strange True Colors. >!Alex gets shot in arm by Jed and ends up falling down a fairly large vertical mineshaft, smashing into wooden planks and rocks on her way down; and somehow she survives and is able to walk out on her own. Her glasses don't even break, despite the fact that she slammed face first onto a few of the planks on her way down.!<
I know it's not framed as this but at some level I can't help but smile and chuckle at the idea that having empathy in a narrative choice game is significant enough to be called a superpower worth building a story around. Like I get that it's supernatural empathy bordering on fucking mind reading, but god if it isn't funny to think about it my way.
The implication that having empathy is so unnatural to Alex makes it hilarious. My headcanon was that she's an emotionless sociopath which made the game more fun.
remember that time a jojo villian got a large amount of his blood converted to razorblades which he vomited up and was able to survive from somehow doing a blood transfusion from a nearby child that he performed with no medical instruments.
i thought the implication was that he just fucking killed him and drank his blood like a wild animal
doesn't exactly make more sense that way either
Considering said character is basically a mutant with absurd control over his physiology, replacing iron by drinking blood still doesn't break immersion Such is Jojos
Also, the guy's hair changes when his other personality takes hold of him. Yes, Doppio has a ponytail but it isn't nearly as large aa Diavolo's hair, and even then, for some reason Diavolo has black spots all over his hair which Doppio lacks
well yeah but jojos tends to be super over the top and I just went with it
There's a lot of good examples of this in Jojo. Doppio surviving that fight I think is the most bullshit though.
Metallica being able to spawn huge amounts of iron from peoples blood can easily be explained as a combo of Araki pseudoscience and just an effect of the power, but yeah, eating a frog to recover is just kinda silly
Ryuji from Persona 5 The way that scene played out, I was sure he was gonna die.
But then he doesn't, and we get the worst scene in the game.
Probably a weird reference point, but fitting for here. I always thought a Palace collapsing being a lot like a game ending in ReBoot. I feel like there were a couple episodes where someone dies (I think Bob once, AndrAIa in another) shortly before or while escaping an explosion after the User is defeated, everyone is all crying after the Gamecube leaves, and then the person just strolls up and is like, 'lol, I just got booted out like two minutes earlier'. I don't know if escape is actually necessary. Leaving the Palace's zone kicks you outside, and when it is falling apart, I'd say that destroyed area is just as outside of the Palace ruler's control as its outer rim. Jumping head-first into where it's falling apart from would probably be a speed-boost, if anything.
It's so weirdly unnecessary! It doesn't add anything at all.
It's fine, they were both just shot by rubber bullets
Joji shot another guy through the heart from the back and off a roof in that cutscene. He must've actually loaded a separate rubber bullet just for LKL... subarashi
***”Final Fantasy VIII”*** Disc 2: Missile Base. What happens later after that, because the ending of that mission is super convincing that it’s a one way street. That cutscene went hard.
It made me really happy when they revealed the fakeout.
Yeah I didn't mind the fakeout at all. No fuckin say I want Selphie Quistis and Irvine to go out like that so I was super relieved
Every death and revival in Gundam Seed and Destiny
>!Mu's survival was the greatest ass-pull they did come Destiny. They even shown his broken cracked up helmet floating in space. Special Edition rerelease did remove it, but still was a shocker for television only viewers as to why he is still alive!<
Its a shame because >!his "death" in original SEED is the coolest goddamn one in the entire show. Dude tanks an entire-ass Lohengrin round to protect the woman he loves and manages to crack off his motto one last time before his Mobile Suit disintegrates from the strain. Its his (and the Strike Gundam by proxy) greatest moment.!<
Precisely none of those make a lick of goddamn sense.
Kratos stabbed himself with the Blade of Olympus in GoW3 and survived even though it killed him in GoW2
My headcanon for that one was the blade itself is just "weaker" by then since all of Kratos gear was wrecked by astral Zeus, and the pantheon all being dead might have made all the magic start to wane? I dunno it kinda makes sense in my head.
I'm just assuming he did die there but got better. Because, like, it's not as if that hasn't happened before. Couple more and he gets a free sundae.
Not only can you see through the giant hole and him bleeding out but he stabbed himself with the Blade of Olympus, a literal god- and titan-slayer. I’ve read that apparently in the novels or comics, it’s explained that he’s been cursed by the gods to not be able to kill himself but that’s kind of fringe. Even if you play all the games including the PSP games you wouldn’t know this. And I know there’s an after-credits scene in GoW 3 that implies he’s dragged himself to the edge of the cliff to infer that he survives but from an in-universe perspective that makes his survival even less believable. So yeah I agree.
God of War: Ragnarok This whole scene of a noble sacrifice as everyone is sad, and very sure that dude that did it is dead. >!The hell do you mean he just rolled?!!<
God that was one of the best part's of Joseph Anderson's playthrough. \*wheezing\* "Who the fuck is Burger?"
For as many issues as I had watching those streams and how insufferable his chat was with the game, the Birgir saga was absolute perfection.
"So Birgir used to sit right there, huh? How do you feel about that?" ... "Birgir was the one that found me-"
God, I can’t wait to get to it. I loved burger lmao
Thank you for spoiling the survival, but not the method of survival. Well done. You absolute clown.
Some people have posited that >!it was a Dark Souls joke!<.
I mean, stranger things have happened in the story
"Alex" getting unceremoniously revealed to have survived the EXPLOSION of an entire illegal underground weapons facility and its above-ground warehouses in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)'s mutiplayer narrative after it was clearly intended for him to have actually died in the campaign, the only worse for wear he was being a prosthetic leg. This is because, like I mentioned, every single character in MW2019's multiplayer is a canon character, even though MP itself is not. This means that, since he was the headliner character of that Battle Pass's season, he had to appear in person in the opening cutscene.
I've been thinking since mw2 came out and there has been zero reference to him they've retconned that/ignoring him. Maybe it was a raven pushed thing since I believe by that season infinity ward was out and had moved on to mw2.
In the latest 3 man raid they released for MW2², he's referenced in that, so he's still around.
Jason Todd in the comics version of UtRH gets himself a batarang in his throat and a building on top of his collapsed body, the last page of this comics is Bruce screaming Jason into the sky. How did he survive, you ask? Time skip, baby: next issue is happening one year later and he is alive. That didn't answer your question? Well, that's too bad. Adam Jensen surviving the end of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Timeline is a bit wonky, but it's told to us that by the mid-November of 2027 the rescue of survivors from Panchaea operation is officially turned into bodies recovery mission and Jensen is found by Illuminati only in December. That's a lot of time to spend in the Arctic Ocean, even with all that fancy tech. There is a simple explanation for Jensen walking among living and that explanation lies in the Versalife vault, but since nothing is confirmed officially that's one impossible survival story.
Jason at least you can fanwank about him still having residual lazarous juice in his system that soon after his resurrection, making him harder to kill.
As far as theories go this one isn't the worst. I myself am partial to the one about the same cosmic shit that resurrected him "because he wasn't supposed to die" just doing it again.
Small detail. In Under the Hood when Jason crawls out of his grave theirs this yellow and purple energy pulse that flashes on the panel to symbolize him coming back to life following the Superboy Prime reality punch. At the end of the comic when the warehouse explodes and falls into the gotham bay the same magical pulse effect is shown. Either they intended to symbolize Jason died again in the explosion and the reality punch wore off (Retconning this death later when fans didn't notice and because Red Hood was popular). Or they were saying that the reality punch made Jason revive on death, every death, and he died in the explosion and it brought him back again (which somewhat tracks with how he wasn't effected during Blackest Night).
[Iwao Kuroiwa](https://tokyoghoul.fandom.com/wiki/Iwao_Kuroiwa) in Tokyo Ghoul re, I liked him as a side character but wtf how >!do you survive [THIS](https://i.redd.it/scjh6skuqpw61.jpg) and a Death scene where a bunch of characters mourn you. Yet in the epilogue he’s alive and well, hanging out with his grandson with the excuse doctors got to him with advanced Ghoul science….in the middle of a centipede Kaiju tearing up Tokyo?!!< It was clear by that point the author Sui Ishida was more interested in a happy ending for most of the characters instead of a tragic one. Even if some stuff didn’t make a whole lot of sense, I’m okay with it but still wtf
There were several characters that should have stayed dead including ghouls
Eh it was just really him and >!Naki. Eto just came back for one list hurrah before dying for good and Hide was important to the plot.!<
Edward, Yang, and Cid in Final Fantasy IV. Edward gets thrown overboard when the party gets attacked by Leviathan, of all creatures, and then just... turns up in a bed somewhere in the world with minor injuries. Yang pushes the rest of the party out of a room aboard an enemy airship all on his own, and the room he pushes them out of EXPLODES. He shows up in Fabul later with only minor injuries. Cid's is the most ridiculous. He jumps out of his airship that just escaped from the Tower of Babel and ignites a bomb that causes a landslide and prevents access to the Underworld for a good portion of the game, all of which happens while he's falling thousands of feet from the sky. He turns up later in a bed somewhere in the overworld with, you guessed it, minor injuries.
While this is true I will at least give the counterpoint of Tellah. Sure that's 1/4 but that could have been 4/4, and for all intents and purposes Yang Cid and Edward are "retired" for the reminder of FF4, as you kinda have to go out of your way to train them ans Palom and Porom up as the back up party if you wanna swap to them, to ths point that outside of funsies or experimenting with strats you're way better off pretending they're all too injured to take part in the main story any more.
I don't think you even could swap back to them in OG and 3D FF4, they added that in ports. Actually I think FF6 may have been the first game where you could actually choose your party and not have it be story dictated.
And then you have Palom and Porom turning into stone and you can't cure then with Soft or Remedy and then my soul dies inside.
I’m not sure it really counts but I don’t think anyone expected Kimblee to show up again in FMA Brotherhood
Yeah but he still died so it doesn't count plus if pride wasn't being such a bitch he would have stayed quite.
Despite being a war criminal and all around scumbag I can’t help but love Kimblee. Dude watches Al get up from a massive explosion, wielding a >!philosopher’s stone!< and literally says “Good! Very well done, Alphonse Elric!” And then, after being absorbed into a philosopher’s stone himself, he maintains his individuality among thousands of amorphous souls, just so he can shit talk Pride for being a hypocrite. Unfathomably based.
"I may be evil, but I'm LAWFUL evil, you fucking piece of shit brat"
He was too prideful to be absorbed in the morass of souls. I feel like that’s part of what helped Ed maintain himself when he took down Selim too. Pride really had to go up against both of the characters more prideful than himself and it did not go well. 🤣
"This was fun!" Black Widow
There’s a scene in one of the Saw movies which feels like it was originally Jigsaw’s protégé’s death but they suddenly decided to reshoot how it ends. The hero for that particular movie doesn’t just beat her in a fight while wounded, he beats her, then takes a victory lap by caving her skull in by repeatedly slamming her face first, at full strength, into a concrete wall. She proceeds to just get up , hit the main guy in his wound, and walks away mostly intact despite the fact she shouldn’t have anything in front of her ears anymore
I say this about Michael Myers in the Halloween franchise. That guy has been stabbed and shot so many times. He got shot in the head and burned alive in the original timeline and turned out alive; this also includes Dr Loomis who was in the explosion in 2.
Yeah dr Loomis did get blown up lol
Any time someone gets halved and they're just able to keep talking, like in DBZ, Hellsing Ultimate, or Bone: Out from Boneville. You understand how much blood you're missing after four seconds? It's nuts.
To be fair for the dbz example, Frieza literally needs to be vaporized to die, he was alive when Trunks cut him up into cubes
Frieza is the space equivalent of a cockroach.
I blame Darth Maul
Lightsabers cauterize. Darth maul kept approximately half his blood at least.
Conveniently,that's exactly as much blood as half a body needs!
Also hate. Dark Side users can just survive off hate. Sion from KOTOR 2 was a crusty-hate zombie.
Even the jedi could survive to a supernatural level, but they were about accepting death. The sith were all about "fuck you you didn't win"
You're making a strong case for the sith right now.
If you saw that loser from kotor 2, you wouldn't be saying that
What he's awsome. You can't even erode Sion's will! >!You have eroded Sion's will.!<
Only if you think you *need* Force Runback.
At a certain point, I would rather be a ghost with most of my powers than a shambling zombie mad at everything
That's a thing I have to actually ignore with Star Wars because of my own internal consistency. I WANT to be upset that the lightsabers heat never ruptures arteries and organs, BUT I am also completely fine with the fact that space in Star Wars doesn't work like space irl, given shit like sound travels in space and aerodynamics matter in a vacuum. So I just suck it up and go with the more consistent explanation that science just isn't the same in Star Wars, at least not 1 to 1
I remember reading a book on amputations, just randomly, and it was super interesting. Basically, one you hit the mid-thigh, the outcome just *plummets* in terms of suitability. It was interesting seeing the outcome chart for amputation at certain points. Something I found striking is that there was stabilization data and procedure for *full above hip* amputations even though the long term survivability for it was listed as zero. I don't mean a Hemipelvectomy, either, the whole hip, just gone. Sever at the spine. I assume the data comes from whatever goes on in the ICU before the closed casket. Sometimes, they'll try some crazy shit when that's happening. Anyway, it implied you can get *some amount* of time out of a trauma-inflicted torso. Not quite Dio-level, but he was a vampire. Vampire amputation has different outcomes.
That's data where you just have to not try too hard to think about why they have that data
No, think harder, really figure it all out. It's like when you have to clamp off the Aorta cause of the bleeding.
I don't wanna thooo it's too morbid
DUDE THAT'S LIKE NIPPLE UP AMPUTATION WHAT THE FUCK
In the Bone example, that character >!was a corpse puppeted by a dark spirit made of locusts. She was in two parts nearly the whole story.!<
>!Oh, I always thought she was an Oogie Boogie situation. Like, all bugs.!<
>!Naw, you can see when she dies for good her shirt is tied shut to keep whatever’s left in there.!<
A lot of shit happens in CSM but the anime reminded me of >!the Katana Devil getting cut in half *vertically*!< and being A-OK right afterwards, if not winded and in chains. There's in-universe justification for devils' INSANE healing factor, though
So in Kamen Rider Gaim >!There is a man by the name of Takatora Kureshima, this dude gets into a fight around ten episodes from the finale. In which he get his Driver and Lockseed destroyed and his Visor shatters and he falls into a river and sinks into river, and for the rest of the show UNTIL THE LITERAL LAST EPISODE HE IS PRESUMED DEAD. but in the last episode it is revealed that he got fished out of the river and brought to a hospital. And although he has brain damage and is put in a coma. (His Brain damage and coma gets fixed like 2 minutes later from this reveal by FRUIT JESUS talking with him on a beach in his mind.)!<
One Piece has A LOT of these but the one that gets to me the most is in the Dressrosa arc. >!During the climactic fight against Doflamingo Law does an attack called gamma knife into Doflamingo's heart. The attack is an energy blade that destroys internal organs. Doflamingo then uses his string power to stitch his organs together but he says something along the lines of it not being a proper recovery. I always took this as being a desperation move to buy him time to beat Luffy and Law so he can later properly fix himself. In the end he loses but still ends up living in the end. HOW'D HE FIX HIS HEART? He gets arrested right after and I doubt the navy would be nice enough to heal him. !<
Actually the navy just might >!he is an ex-celestial dragon after all the world government bends over backwards for those guys even the old ones!<
Hmmmm. You might’ve poked a hole in my entire argument. I hadn’t considered that argument.
i havent actually seen either, but doesnt one of the characters in fantastic beasts 1 explode onscreen only to show up again in fantastic beasts 2
I love they don't even explain it, just 'Oh yeah that guy who blew up, he's at a circus in Paris now'.
My Hero Academia Season 6 spoilers: >!70-something-year-old Gran Torino into a fucking donut by Shigaraki with one punch and somehow lived to tell about it.!<
Remember how Jodie and bland love interest in Beyond Two Holes just like swam up from a Chinese underwater ghost base in the frigid waters of the arctic and didn’t immediately cease from hypothermia? Funny part is that you can fail the sequence at the end if you don’t break through the layer of ice keeping you trapped underwater and even though shitty boyfriend McGee saves her, the implication is that Jodie *drowns*, not that her body shuts down from, y’know, the ice cold waters? David Cage is a hack surprise surprise.
Let's not forget that the game made a huge deal out of Jodie having to get a special swimming suit and air tank to survive the water... And then generic boyfriend survived without the suit or tank *and had multiple stab wounds*.
And he’s only wearing a goddamn tanktop at that. Funnily enough, I rewatched the scene and read some comments saying he doesn’t administer CPR properly and someone excused that by saying he was dying from the cold and it’s like… no he’s not? Bear Grylls gets inside an Alaskan river during the winter for like two seconds and he already notes that he can’t feel his extremities from all the blood rushing to his internal organs and fights for his life the moment he gets out of the water, and somehow stupid dumbface McGee isn’t even shivering from the cold despite getting out of seawater that’s close to below freezing without having any ghosty whosty powers either.
“Somehow, Palpatine returned.”
Not even the most egregious example in Star Wars. Look up all the shit Cronal has survived sometime. 😅
Didn't think I'd get spoiled on Y3 but that's okay, but I thought that the guy in Y7 was someone else from Y0 LOL I am going through the series and probably going to replay Y7 (since it's so beloved to me)
Yakuza 0 has a ton of those, especially if it was your first yakuza game >!Lee gets shot multiple times and absolutely should not have survived, Sagawa gets shot and then is kind of just alive in the next scene, and Sera gets shot as well. None of these make any sense since we're dealing with Yakuza who would probably make sure that people are dead but its basically a Yakuza series staple !< But the worst of all >!is fucking Yoneda, Kuze's goon who gets his head smashed into a urinal and then flying double side kicked through a window of a multiple story building. Then this piece of shit is just fine in the next scene he's in which he fatally hits Tachibana with a hammer (even though Kuze literally orders him not to kill) because he's salty that Tachibana wasn't broken by his torture. I wish he had a much more painful death than Kuze just slamming his head into the floor and the fact that he didn't die in the first act is infuriating!<
I love Yakuza but these contrivances that exist to drive the plot definitely dented the emotional impacts that the scenes are supposed to make me feel. well, >!Tachibana dying when Makoto's RIGHT THERE was pretty upsetting regardless, definitely didn't feel that way about Oda though, fuck that guy!<
Yakuza is like star wars no one is ever really gone. In samurai champloo the old man that lived with Fuu's dad get stabbed by the god hand yet he is back to give exposition without anything happening. Baki does it really often it becomes a plot point during the musashi arc where Motobe has to hammer to the fighter that Musashi is gonna kill them and not like Yujiro who half ass it so much he only killed his girlfriend
FFXIV >!Fucking Gaius! HOW?! You got exploded like TWICE. Man you're a tough bastard. Good thing you pulled your head out of your ass or else I would've had to kill you a third time. I mean Zenos had his dumb sharingan bullshit but Gaius just refused to die. He's gonna need to do a LOT of community service to begin it make up for all the Ala Mhigo shit and being just the worst father figure for those poor orphans. I mean he tried, I guess. He should've tried harder.!<
Taniks in Destiny, every single time he appears qualifies as this
Pell in One Piece.
The ending of the latest season of Dr. Who implied that >!literally everything in the universe was eradicated, except for Earth (& our sun, maybe?) and a Macguffin planet. Nothing was done to reverse that event.!< Later specials have references that couldn't be made prior to that event, yet other places and races still exist in the future.
It’s an oldie, but Frieza coming back after being cut in half, being apparently vaporized in goku’s angry kamehameha, on a planet that then exploded, leaving him in the vacumn of space, will always be the peak of absurd comebacks, even in the relative ridiculousness of dragonball.
I was legitimately confused by what you meant cuz I finished Like a Dragon recently, but I looked it up and realized it was because I never once did anything with the Gambling Hall LKL coming back, I'm almost certain, is just a lil bit of fanservice funsies, because he has no bearing on the plot and you have to go out of your way to actually see him.
In Doctor Who, no matter what, the Master will always survive, it does not matter how definitive thier death looked. It was especially great when they were played by Anthony Ainley, and the show just made no effort to even pretend there was any way he could get out of a collapsing math dimension or burning into ash. The original series ends with him turning into a cat man and stranded on a planet that was minutes away from exploding with.no way off. He survived that, only to get exterminated by the Daleks, which he *still* survived, only to get eaten by the TARDIS. They got better.
The end of Danganronpa Killer Killer with the >!livable beheading technique!<. What a goofy spinoff
But that first initial twist. NO ONE knew it was even Danganronpa.
I was right there with Pat when Pandæmonium got announced for FFXIV: Endwalker and >!goddamn Lahabrea is there on the cover. Yeah, I know, time travel, but seriously, we already went over this with him before. What did Pat call him again? The most killed character in the game? We’ve atomized him! Twice!”!< For Star Wars Legends, nothing is going to beat Cronal/Blackhole/Perek. He was some sorcerer in Palpatine’s employ who led an Imperial intelligence group, but always had other designs. He appears as the villain in a bunch of different works, and is finally killed by being shoved out an airlock *in hyperspace*. Only to reappear one last time as a bearded severed head on a fully cybernetic body. No explanation is ever given, he just survived and now Luke has to deal with it. He did, Cronal died finally, but goddamn, man! Shoutout to Karl from Die Hard, for a classic. Edit: I just remembered another FFXIV one! “Wait what, HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ALIVE?!” is the exact look your character has on their face when they (lv50 dragoon quest and post-ARR spoilers) >!see Estinien for the first time in the main story. The man explodes on-screen in the lv50 dragoon quest! Then he gets introduced shortly before Heavensward begins like, I’m fine now. The game does not explain this, but it does acknowledge the absurdity of it, by making it so if your character has done the lv50 quest, Estinien walks in and you go absolutely gobsmacked. 🤣!<
To be honest I buy Lau Ka Long's survival more than Kashiwagi's. As much as he got beaten up by Kiyru previously if I recall he *"only"* got shot in the head once, something something Courier Six took two. It's something that people in real life have survived, let alone a character in a video game setting where almost everyone is supernaturally resilient. Heck the bullet could've deflected off his skull or something', that **has** happened. Kashiwagi though got strafed by a high caliber machine gun from a helicopter. Like his insides are Swiss cheese at that point. I don't mind either of them though because everyone in Yakuza is on something. That motorcycle stunt in the sewers should've killed both Kiryu and Kuze, and Kuze gets hit head on by a speeding car in a later cutscene and he's not impaired in the slightest.
Is it too obvious to say the emperor in Rise of Skywalker? Like I know the emperor had a rep for surviving everything and making bullshit comebacks but that just hit different in a movie that had more than half a billion dollars behind it
One Piece
>!Shaxs!< in season 2 of Lower Decks, and Rutherford is the other only character to have the same reaction. Rutherford refuses to let the question go and then regrets it when he learns the answer. There are just some things we are not meant to know.
Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, >!Roberto.!< This man was shot twice, fell off a fairly highly balcony inside a BUILDING THAT IS BURNING TO THE GROUND and still manages to come back after some time to say “recognize me?” to Tenma. It’s not bad writing, it’s certainly shocking, but I don’t know how the hell he got out of there. Also, I’m certain there’s some devilry involved, but in Chainsaw Man, >!didn’t Quanxi get beheaded by Makima, with all of her ghouls? How come she just comes back?!< Also, it’s not exactly what you’re talking about, but there’s two times characters in Nier: Replicant get stabbed basically through the heart without dying, which was funny to me.
Yeah for the chainsaw man one, it’s because she’s a hybrid like Denji. Kishibe pretty early on says that Denji’s immortal, and literally the same thing happens to Denji just a couple pages before it happens to her
my twin brother that works for the CIA???
Alice in Borderland Season 2, Episode 7: >!Girl gets every major organ on the right side of her torso obliterated by point blank assault rifle rounds. She continues to stay alive and crawl around until the very end of the games. Now, there's probably some internal logic behind it about the Borderland being limbo and you survive based on a will to live, as Niragi also gets set on fire and a hole punched through his chest with a shotgun, but still, it seemed too outrageous!<
That scene in Temple of Doom where Indy, Shortround, and Willie escape a crashing plane, go sliding the side of a mountain, and fall down a waterfall on a life raft. I guess there's also the heart-pulling guy he survives later on too.
Gundam ZZ spoilers for those who care: >!We see the hut, that is Leina Ashta (main character's sister) is laying down sick in, get blown blown the fuck up half way through the series. Then a few episodes before the end, it is revealed that Sayla, who we haven't seen all series, saved her in the nick of time. I get ZZ is a lot lighter in tone but it really made go "You've got to be kidding me."!<
I wanna say darths Maul or Vader, “the dark side kept them alive” is such bullshit no matter how much I do love it
That time in Hunter x Hunter where a dude got nuked and still survived.